AltWeeklies Wire
Sicko Nationnew
The American health care system is badly broken, but it is not unredeemable. We, the people, have a say in it -- we just need to start speaking up.
Jackson Free Press |
Ronni Mott |
08-15-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Banging the Drum for Bio-defensenew
San Antonio boosters cheer Homeland Security boodle potential, downplay risk.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
08-15-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Sicko Juniornew
Kidney cancer killed Julie Pierce's husband -- now she fears it will claim her 15-year-old son.
Tags: Health & Science
A Life of Deathnew
Behind the scenes with the forensic team.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Torres |
08-09-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
New Breakthrough Will Help Cancer Patentsnew
Algorithm by researchers predicts treatment's success.
C-Ville Weekly |
Carianne King |
08-08-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Sicko's Curenew
Health-care experts say Michael Moore's movie makes a good argument for national health care.
Tags: Health & Science
A Proposal for the Queen of Brentwoodnew
L.A. Sniper: Come home, Yvonne, to a penthouse suite at King-Harbor Hospital.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
08-03-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Arkansas's Best Doctors 2007new
From bench to bedside, Little Rock's Finest
Arkansas Times |
Leslie Newell Peacock |
08-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Sex, Sand, Sea and Surgery: Third World Travelnew
"Medical Tourism in Developing Countries" author points to the rise of Americans traveling abroad for cheaper surgery.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Ted Hesson |
07-31-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Bacteria Love Garbage Strikes Toonew
While flies and cockroaches are the pests that will be most obvious when Vancouver's garbage starts to pile up because of the civic strike, it's the growth of microscopic bacteria like salmonella and shigella that should be of concern to authorities.
The Georgia Straight |
Carlito Pablo |
07-26-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Biotech or Biohazard?new
A proposed federal lab in Butner, N.C., would study the world's deadliest diseases.
Tags: Health & Science
Where's the 'Decent Health Care' We Voted For?new
Throughout the nation, the scandalous health care situation results in much pain, suffering and unnecessary loss of life, but seems to be accepted as another unfortunate aspect of 21st-century life.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Robert Sigmond |
07-24-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
MIT Neuroscientists Pinpoint Brain Mechanics of Deja Vunew
It stems not from some strange subconscious flash-forward but rather from a complicated breakdown in the area of the hippocampus that allows you to differentiate among places and events that seem the same but aren't.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
07-20-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
'Sicko' Needs a New Prescriptionnew
Michael Moore's new flick only mimics the backwardness of U.S. medical culture -- someone pull him into the 21st century.
NOW Magazine |
Staff |
07-20-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
A Healthy Colorado?new
State explores options for comprehensive health care reform.
Boulder Weekly |
Pamela White |
07-16-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
